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Berkeley Police and Fire

The feed you are listening to is a realtime (ok, about 30 seconds-delayed) digital broadcast of the Berkeley Police and Fire departments. Berkeley's first responders are part of the East Bay Regional Communications System (EBRCS), a P25-compliant communications consortium serving the public agencies of Contra Costa and Alameda counties within the San Francisco Bay Area.

I had some free time, extra hardware, and a desire to learn Linux programming on a Raspberry Pi - I integrated all the components, programmed the RasPi, and am streaming out the feed toBroadcastify.com.

The feed is available on a number of platforms: this website, Broadcastify.com, iOS & Android (via many of the free scanner apps), and a host of others.

Please see the Raspberry Pi page for technical details on how I established this feed.

Channel Guide

DEC

Description

Channel

Alert Tone (Uniden Home Patrol)

3105

Police Dispatch

PD 1

Single beep (Alert 5)

3106

Police Channel 2

PD 2

Warble-beep (Alert 3)

3108

Police Channel 4

PD 4

3109

Police Channel 5

PD 5

2105

Fire Dispatch 1

FD 1

High-low, High-low, High-low (Alert 7)

2106

Fire Dispatch 2

FD 2

High-low, High-low, High-low (Alert 7)

2112

Fire Emergency

FD EMER

High-low, High-low, High-low (Alert 7)

2671

Fire Command 11

FD CMD 11

Three beeps (Alert 1)

2691

Fire Tac 31

FD TAC 31

Three beeps (Alert 1)

Archive

Click this Dropbox Link to access a monthly archive of trimmed recordings.

Police Crime Classifications & Codes

The link below will take you to the City of Berkeley's website listing crime classifications and codes used within the department.